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The all-rounder
Who: Sushant Singh RajputScreen breakthrough: Kai Po Che (2013)How young: 27Sushant Singh Rajput was all set to chuck television stardom in favour of a filmmaking course at the University of California, Los Angeles, when he was selected as the lead in Abhishek Kapoor's Kai Po Che. The film, where he played an enterprising cricket enthusiast, placed him prominently on the cinematic radar.Before the big screen beckoned, Rajput trained with thespian Barry John for five years, after which producer Ekta Kapoor cast him as the lead in the daily soap, Pavitra Rishta. A fine actor, he's also light on his feet: he performed with Shiamak Davar's troupe at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and later dazzled on the dance-based reality show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 4, where he was first runner-up.Finishing second, however, isn't in his nature; he has never auditioned for a role he didn't eventually bag. Kai Po Che, a film for which many a prominent actor auditioned, was his first step. Peekay (forthcoming in 2014) and Shuddh Desi Romance (2013) came right after. He is now on preparatory leave to play Bengali sleuth Byomkesh Bakshi in Dibakar Banerjee's next.Rajput is more cerebral than most of the young crop, and not just because he dropped out of the Delhi College of Engineering to make it in the movies. He speaks of things like "binary states" to explain how he prepares for a role. "There's a bridge between you and the character. There's a point when you're not the character yet but you're no longer yourself either. This is a confusing and chaotic state," he says. "But it's the best place to be. Anything can happen."[YOUTUBE]www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9rqbJxnqRI&sns=tw&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DP9rqbJxnqRI%26sns%3Dtw[/YOUTUBE]uff .. not able to embed...